NATO Ambassador: Our Mandate Relates to the MoD & MoI

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NATO Ambassador to Iraq Juliette Gundy speaking during her interview with the iNNOV8.

NATO Ambassador to Iraq announced that the mandate of the NATO Mission in Iraq (NMI) relates only to the Iraqi Ministry of Defense (MoD) and Iraqi Ministry of Interior (MoI) as well as the Federal Police in the Greater Baghdad Area, ruling out working with the Kurdish Peshmerga forces.

Regarding interaction with the Peshmerga forces, NATO Ambassador to Iraq Juliette Gundy said during an interview with the iNNOV8: "It is not part of our mandate and not part of our advisory and capacity building role. NMI is a non-combatant advisory mission, and our mandate has been clearly set up in terms of what we are doing. Our mandate relates to the MoD and MoI as well as the Federal Police in the Greater Baghdad Area. In terms of our work, we are geographically located in Baghdad."

Regarding NMI's purview over the process of Peshmerga unification, Ambassador Gundy said: "We have a good framework that is very well defined, and based on that we only have relationships with specific Iraqi institutions, particularly the MoD and Iraqi Armed Forces. It is a well-defined concerted effort in order to provide advisory support for these institutions."

"Our work might not be as broad as one might expect, but what we have is a close relationship with the Iraqi Ministry of Defense since 2018," she added.

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